While in office, the German president makes his or her temporary home in this snowy-white neoclassical palace on the edge of the Tiergarten. Built in 1785 by Philipp Daniel Boumann for the youngest brother of Frederick the Great, it became a school under Kaiser Wilhelm II and a museum of ethnology under the Nazis.
The president's staff members hit their desks in the Bundespräsidialamt (Office of the Federal President), a modern oval building south of the palace.
